2aguy
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Yep.....they will make your semi auto pistol, your Glock, Sig, Beretta, Smith and Wesson pistol.....illegal........they have upped their game...and you thought they only wanted to ban all rifles....
Senate Democrats introduce new ban on 'assault weapons'
Moving past singling out specific firearms, it would also ban semi-auto handguns and rifles with a detachable magazine and only one “military characteristics” such as a pistol grip, telescoping or folding stock, or threaded barrel.
how is "assault weapon" defined?
no doubt guns.com is a reliable source.
The made up term of "assault weapon" is a military, select fire weapon. The AR-15 and other semi auto rifles are not select fire weapons. They are civilian rifles that are also used by the police.
which addresses how we keep weapons away from people who shouldn't have them, how?
Kill violent criminals. There's no reason to hoard trash.
Lock up the crazies when detected. That was the practice until about 30 years ago.
why should civilians have military weapons?
Why should law-abiding, rational citizens not? Employ logic, not perception or third-party opinion..
the death penalty is not an individual deterrant to crime.
the death penalty results in people who are not guilty being killed. (see Innocence Project stats)
and because there is no reason to have military weapons and it is not what the 2nd amendment guarantees... even the wingiest judge (scalia) said you are subject to reasonable regulation.
Actually, military weapons are exactly what the 2nd Amendment guarantees......and according to Heller...
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/07pdf/07-290.pdf
We do not interpret constitutional rights that way. Just as the First Amendment protects modern forms of communications, e.g., Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U. S. 844, 849 (1997), and the Fourth Amendment applies to modern forms of search, e.g., Kyllo v. United States, 533 U. S. 27, 35–36 (2001), the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding.